{"id":117200,"date":"2025-09-03T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117200\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:07:10","slug":"end-canadas-temporary-foreign-worker-program-poilievre-says-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117200\/","title":{"rendered":"End Canada\u2019s temporary foreign worker program, Poilievre says – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada must end the temporary foreign worker<\/a> program, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s time to take decisive action to protect our youth and workers,\u201d Poilievre said, with a press release urging the government to \u201cimmediately stop issuing new TFW permits, and end this wage-suppressing, opportunity-stealing program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder this urgently-needed plan, the temporary foreign worker<\/a> program would be permanently abolished with a separate, standalone program for legitimately difficult-to-fill agricultural labour,\u201d Poilievre said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor ultra-low-unemployment regions, there will be a transition period of, at most, five years while the program winds down, but no new permits will be issued anywhere in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

His proposal comes\u00a0amid growing scrutiny of the temporary foreign worker program<\/a> and concerns about whether access to less expensive labour through the program can hurt the potential for wage growth in communities.<\/p>\n

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The federal data shows Canada set a target to admit 82,000 new arrivals through the temporary foreign worker program this year.<\/p>\n

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Last year, the federal government announced it was introducing restrictions to the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The government said it will refuse applications for low-wage temporary foreign workers in regions with an unemployment rate of six per cent or higher.<\/p>\n

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A low-wage job is defined as one that pays below the median hourly wage in the province where the job is located.<\/p>\n

For employers, there will be a cap of 10 per cent of employees coming from the low-wage stream of the TFW program and a reduction of the maximum duration of employment from two years to one, according to the Employment and Social Development Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Poilievre said youth unemployment in Canada was \u201cat its lowest in more than a quarter-century\u201d outside of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s latest immigration levels plan aims to reduce the number of temporary foreign workers from 6.5 per cent of Canada\u2019s population to less than five per cent by 2026.<\/p>\n

Ottawa also has a cap on the number of international student permits it issues. Last year, it vowed to further reduce the number of study permits from 485,000 in 2024 to 437,000 this year.<\/p>\n

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Government figures indicate that Canada\u2019s temporary resident population is set to decline by 445,901 in 2025, and 445,662 in 2026, followed by \u201ca modest increase of 17,439 in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

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